Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNAmerica will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
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It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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